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Jun 19, 2008

ConsumerWatchdog.org email campaign - Send Your Gasoline Bill To Congress!

Gas pump adventure continues.  With gallon costing close to $4.60 in California, this everyday pain is now ready to generate serious comedy (and political campaigns as well). 

I received this email (see below) from ConsumerWatchDog.org organization urging me to send complaints to  local congressmen. Which I am not sure I will do.

Email campaign is a good move to get citizens involved in the issues but urging elected representative to act for some short term fix is not something we need. What we need is a good long term strategy around changes in consumption model, investments in alternative forms of energy, incentives for people to own less number of vehicles and incentives for using public transport. While congress needs to go tough on tax rebates, and getting oil companies to pay their part, ordinary citizens cannot continue drunken sailor consumption pattern.

While reading this campaign I noticed interesting Google ads for oil related keywords. Some of these ads are funny and some are plain old hustle. Should Google allow this kind of ad - "Run your car on water"?  To his credit this fellow succeeded in outbidding VW and ABCNews!

Facts on Fuel
Learn more about supply, demand, and the pricing of fuels from API.
www.factsonfuel.org

Is Water For Gas A Scam?
Can You Really Convert Your Car To Run On Water? Find out the Truth!
www.RunCarByWater.com/Reviews


Run Your Car on Water
Do you know about this way to add water to fuel and save on gas?
YouBetterReadThis.com


Gasoline Prices
Save Money on Gas Daily with the All New Diesel Models, Only at VW.
www.VW.com


Gas Locked in at $2.49
AGRP locks in gas prices at $2.49, Saving Americans Hundreds
www.radiogasdeal.com


Increase Gas Mileage 40%+
Tested & Proven Device Saves Fuel GASOLINE
centemax.net


Dream Ticket
Obama Hits Clintons on 'Dream Ticket'. Read Full Story.
ABCNews.com


Burn Water, Not Gas
Don't let gas prices pump you dry. See how to save up to 65% on fuel!
www.Water-Gas-Scam.com




Send Your Gasoline Bill To Congress!

I'm sending my maddening gasoline bill to Washington and inviting you to do the same. Elected representatives don't pull into the corner gas station and pay from their own pockets. They need to know what it's doing to you.

I had my own harsh moment this week at the gas station, pumping $4.60 gasoline: My 50 mpg Prius now costs more to run than my old 15 mpg sedan did in 2002, when gasoline sold around here for as little as $1.13 a gallon. My salary sure hasn't kept up.

Click on the Send Your Free Message button below to tell the president, your Senator and your Representative in Congress what gasoline is costing you and what it's doing to your budget. Just fill in the short form (cost of your last fill-up, where you bought it and what gasoline is costing you each month) and send it. Then forward this message to your friends.

Gasoline prices are hitting record highs every day ($4.075 nationally today, and $4.607 in California, per AAA) Oil company profits are out of sight, as you can tell from looking at our "Oil Profits Monster" database. Yet Congress hasn't even acted to regulate out-of-control oil trading markets. Or to put oversight on refineries that restrict their gasoline and diesel production to keep the retail price high.

Thanks so much for helping us get the message to Congress: If they don’t feel their own pain at the pump, we have to tell them about ours.

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Comments to “ConsumerWatchdog.org email campaign - Send Your Gasoline Bill To Congress!”

  1. chris monte Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    gasoline prices have been $ 3.99 here for several months and now they are spiking it between $4.19 and $4.29 . This is a resort area here we don’t have public busses and trains we can resort to we just have to decide wheather we can buy gas or heat or medicine . This economy here is tied to the tourist trade of which there is not nearly enough when noone can aford to travel . The homes are on the market and no one can even sell them, and every day we keep hearing about how many billions in profit the oil companies are making. News casters keep talking about it and there seems to be no end to the devistation in our economy here, people can’t aford to drive and are going on welfare to live .
    whose going to pay for that? WE have to decide if we can heat our homes or buy food. This has got to stop, when are our elected officials going to do something?

  2. Brij Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Thanks for leaving comment.

    I should have clarified little more. I am not saying that elected officials don’t have a big responsibility. It’s just that by squarely blaming all problems at them is not going to address this huge problem.

    We have to solve this problem ourselves by critically examining our consumption pattern.

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    September 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

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